Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Ariana Fraser

Drive

"the first day of spring, she's unearthed like a perennial, alive like Lazarus, electric & receptive, flush of fog on her lips, i'm lost in it. liquid darkness swallows her car as we drive through space, it's her and I alone, God looks through the car windows. sex on the threshold, dark blue her figure, coax me in like northern nighttime on drunk skin. brandy illuminates me like a lantern and she's a moth that wants to worship the sun."-Éama E.C Noonan-Rudolph This one is heat and humidity, 401 westbound, silver honda with the digital dash, paradis, white claws, gold meets silver, 136km/hr on an 80km/hr curve, the studio, the parking garage, the suburbs, my bedroom, 401 eastbound, that fox, the coyotes, Mississauga meets North York and it's all soundtracked to Kerosene!."Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the stories of experience witnessed, and carrying forward a recollection of embodied existence.